White material [videorecording] / IFC Films ; Why Not Productions présente ; un coproduction Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinéma ; un film de Claire Denis ; scénario, Clair Denis et Marie N'Diaye
Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam, Michel Subor. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009. Special features include interviews, deleted scenes, Ecrans Noirs film festival, 2010, trailer.
Summary:
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
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